Fridge /frɪdʒ/
noun [C]
(1) a piece of kitchen equipment that uses electricity to preserve food at a cold temperature.
In this work, the fridge is reimagined not only as a vitrine, a display cabinet preserving the memory of once familiar objects, but also as an archive: a tomb of technological remains, each carrying its own distinct voice from the recent past. The clatter of typewriter keys composing letters that would take days to arrive has been silenced by the immediacy of email. Cassette recorders with carefully curated recordings, precursors to today’s digital playlists streamed through wireless earbuds. The mechanical click of a shutter capturing portraits, long before the ubiquity of the selfie. These once-bulky devices, have been compressed into the discreet surface of the smartphone. In this frozen archive, the iconic sounds of the analogue linger in quiet contrast to the sleek silence of the digital.
Photographed and printed at almost life size (600mm x 900mm) and originally shown with accompanying sound piece. Edition of 20.
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